Every couple of steps there were one or two, or a small group of them lying dead along the waterline. Right along with all of the kelp air bladders and small rocks and shells pushed up by the waves. No where else. As I walked back towards the parking lot, I counted the bees, and by the time I reached my car, I'd seen many dozens of them. Why were they all dead at the waterline? Why had they flown to the sea to die? The wind all day had come up from the ocean, not from the land, so its not like they'd been blown out to sea.
As I pondered this bizarre sight, the sun started to set. As it had been cloudy all day, I didn't think that there'd be much of a sunset. Was I ever wrong. This evening's sunset was one of the most beautiful I'd ever seen. So, with that sight in my mind, I left the beach to go do other things, but I will always wonder why the bees lay in their watery graves.
4 comments:
Wow, that is an amazing sunset! Nice job!
That is weird... I wonder why?
I have noticed the same thing! I was fishing at the beach yesterday and there were bees crawling around, dying on the shore as you described.
Unfortunately, one of them stung my little granddaughter on her foot.
I also saw ladybird beetles doing the same thing. This is a phenomena I have observed from time to time over the years. Not so much with the bees, but definitely with the little lady bugs. Must be instinctive?
strange! i have observed since a couple of months bees in my toilet... they seem pacified and almost dying. it's like they've come to die in my toilet. It's happened a number of times, more than enough to make it a 'not coincidence' incident.
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